[Gvsig_english] Some questions regarding printing

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Hi Wolfgang,

I do not know the printing capability of Qgis.  But, for arcmap on  
window, the printing is alway problematic.  If you include picture,  
the color is impossible to ajust betwen the picture and the map.  The  
output in ps or pdf have also problems.  After many years of problems  
with the prepress we finaly, like said before, export in tiff, finish  
in photoshop so they can, in prepress, ajust the color with photoshop  
if necessary.

So, export in tiff should be on the export option.  Ps is nice but,  
depend also on the computer you use, you need to be able to convert  
all symbology and fonts to be sure the prepress can replicate your  
work.  Also the rendering depend on the prepress computer when parsing  
ps since mac and pc doesn't have the same color profile.

So the output should be offer in ps, pdf/x3 or so, and in raster tiff,  
png  etc.  But, what is lacking in arcmpap is a color profile to have  
the same output on any type of computer and type of export for prepress.

Marcel
Le 08-07-25 à 08:40, Wolfgang Qual a écrit :

> Hello Silvio,
> [...]
>>
>> In my opinion, the most important thing to add in the
>> map is the option to save the map as image (e.g. as
>> jpeg, png, tiff).
>> Once you get an image you can trasform it into a pdf
>> (Scribus is very handy to do that and the next 1.3.5
>> version is going to rock!).
>> At present, the only workaround I am aware of is to
>> take a screenshot of the map with Gimp or other
>> sofwares in order to produce an image.
>> In Quantum gis and ArcGis you can save the map as
>> image.
> [...]
>
> I do not know about the *quality* of the exported image files of  
> QGIS and
> ArcGIS. I fear that it might be not as good as what would be needed  
> when you
> want to give it to a professional. You might also have problems  
> regarding the
> scale of the map. Therefore, I would expect that an export format  
> like ps
> would be better. And do not forget svg. This would make it possible  
> to make
> some edits afterwards. Maybe someone else could give some input on
> a) planned features of gvSIG regarding this issue
> b) features of other GIS software tools (like ArcGIS)
>
> Best,
> Wolfgang
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